Weekly News Roundup July 20, 2023

Our stories this week include: (1) one of the female voting members of the Synod assembly scheduled to meet in Rome throughout the month of October; (2) the first over-the-counter contraceptive pill approved by the FDA; (3) an article by Phoenix Bishop John Dolan in which he reaffirms the "sacred identity" of "Catholics within the LGBTQ community"; and (4) Vatican journalist Aldo Maria Valli's new interview with Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò (the focus of which is the College of Cardinals and the appointment of Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez to lead the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith).